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PPAC 5, 0909 (P378438)

Administrative tablet & envelope excavated in Girsu (mod. Tello), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

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Museum Collection(s)

British Museum, London, UK

Museum Number

BM 086992

Period

Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Provenience

Girsu (mod. Tello)

Artifact Type

Tablet & envelope

Material(s)

Clay

Genre / Subgenre(s)

Administrative

Language(s)

Sumerian

Measurements

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Text

tablet
obverse
1. 5(gesz2) 5(u) 9(asz) 3(ban2) sze gur lugal
2. sze-ba geme2 kikken2 u3 he2-dab5
3. ki lugal-igi-husz-ta
reverse
1. lu2-kal-la
2. szu ba-ti
3. mu sza-asz-ru-um{ki} ba-hul

Consult previous versions and their differences
Consult sign list of Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Consult word list of Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)

Collections

British Museum, London, UK

Physical Information

Artifact type: Tablet & envelope
Material: Clay
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Seal information:
unsealed
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Text Information

Genre(s): Administrative
Language(s): Sumerian

Related publications

primary: PPAC 5, 909

[Sigrist2013PPAC5] Sigrist, Marcel, and Tohru Ozaki. 2013. Administrative Ur III Texts in the British Museum (AUTBM). Part I-II. Periodic Publications on Ancient Civilizations (PPAC) 5. Changchun, China: Northeast Normal University. The Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations.

Identifiers

Composite No.:
Museum No.: BM 086992
Accession No.: 1900-06-09, 0074

Provenience

Provenience: Girsu (mod. Tello)
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Chronology

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
Dates Referenced: Šulgi.42.00.00
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Revisions and credits

Created	Creator	Type	Authors	Project	Reviewer	Status
2024-10-25 at 08:39:35	Firth, Richard	Artifact metadata, Other metadata	Firth, Richard		Firth, Richard	Approved
2023-09-10 at 21:32:33	Rattenborg, Rune	Artifact metadata	Rattenborg, Rune	Geomapping Landscapes of Writing	Rattenborg, Rune	Approved
2023-01-21 at 07:53:06	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Artifact metadata	Földi, Zsombor J.; Jiménez, Enrique; Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Electronic Babylonian Library	Pagé-Perron, Émilie	Approved
2014-02-01 at 17:58:50	Englund, Robert K.	Transliteration	Englund, Robert K.		CDLI	Approved
2007-12-12 at 00:00:00	CDLI	Artifact metadata	Cripps, Eric L.; Molina, Manuel		CDLI	Approved

External Resources

Consult this artifact as presented on the website of collections and projects:

Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (064617) (064617)
Electronic Babylonian Library (BM.86992) (BM.86992)
British Museum Collection (W_1900-0609-74) (W_1900-0609-74)

Seals

This artifact is impressed by the following seal(s):

Seal	Provenience	Period	Date
dummy composite seal for unidentified seals (P533185)	-	-

Notes

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Cite this Artifacts

“PPAC 5, 0909 Artifact Entry.” (2007) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 25, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P378438.

PPAC 5, 0909 artifact entry (No. P378438). (2024, October 25). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P378438 (Original work published 2007)

PPAC 5, 0909 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P378438 (Accessed: January 30, 2026).

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	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-30]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 25},
	title = {PPAC 5, 0909 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P378438},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P378438},
}

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Cite this Artifacts

“PPAC 5, 0909 Artifact Entry.” (2007) 2024. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). October 25, 2024. https://cdli.earth/P378438.

PPAC 5, 0909 artifact entry (No. P378438). (2024, October 25). Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). https://cdli.earth/P378438 (Original work published 2007)

PPAC 5, 0909 artifact entry (2024) Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Available at: https://cdli.earth/P378438 (Accessed: January 30, 2026).

@misc{2024PPAC,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-01-30]},
	year = {2024},
	month = {oct 25},
	title = {PPAC 5, 0909 artifact entry},
	url = {https://cdli.earth/P378438},
	howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P378438},
}

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DA  - 2024/10/25/
PY  - 2024
ID  - P378438
LB  - CDLI:P378438
M1  - 2026/1/30/
TI  - PPAC 5, 0909 artifact entry
UR  - https://cdli.earth/P378438
ER  -